ASI Alliance founder Ben Goertzel says the alpha version of the AGI he’s been working on for 20 years is “self aware” and scaling up fast.
ASI Alliance founder Ben Goertzel says the alpha version of OpenCog Hyperon the artificial general intelligence system hes been developing for more than two decades is already self-aware to a certain extent.
Goertzel also tells Magazine he believes OpenAI likely shied away from making its “very impressive” new o1 model an autonomous agent for fear that it would be seen as risky and dangerous and provoke a crackdown from regulators.
The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance was formed in March this year, bringing together Goertzels SingularityNET project, Ocean Protocol and DeepMind veteran Humayun Sheikhs FetchAI.
This week, 96% of CUDOS voters approved the decentralized cloud hardware networks merger with ASI. The merger will boost the compute available for Goertzels plans to scale up OpenCog Hyperon, the AGI system hes been working on since 2001 and launched as an open-source AI framework in 2008.
Three years ago, the project embarked on a total rebuild of OpenCog in pursuit of massive scalability, and were a large way through that process, he says. The Alpha launched in April, and while he says its currently very slow and breaking changes are expected, the team is working on massively speeding it up. I think that should be completed this fall. And so then, which means next year, well be setting about trying to build toward AGI on the new Hyperloop infrastructure.
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